Blast from the past

[Shironu-Akaineko]

A story from my Mamie's time!

She was waitressing in a rather posh restaurant, black tie type. Rich customers.

Sol: My Mamie
SC: The idiot
Man: The manager

Sol: *Walks by a table, delivering a cream pie--flavor forgotten--to another table*

SC: *Leans over and pinches her butt*

Sol: *takes one step back and simply plops the pie on his head*

Man: *Comes out quickly as he hears SC chew out Sol and calling her every name in the book.* "What's going on here?"

SC: "She got mad for absolutely no reason!"

Man: "Sol, What happened?"

Sol: "He pinched my butt!"

Man: "Sir, you shouldn't pinch my waitresses!!"

SC: "Why the hell not!! Everybody knows waitressing is a cover up for prostitution!"

Cue Manager throwing the customer onto the curb.

Mamie quit a week after because the customers were too rude and sassy. Knowing her, she was just tired of going apeshit at them.

My Mamie rocked. In her time women were supposed to be these shy lil things that took abuse from men. Not my Mamie. She raised two generations of angry, sassy women.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Mamie Rocks!

[XCashier]

Mamie totally rocks! And so did that manager, for giving the SC what he deserved!

[Shironu-Akaineko]

This restaurant was the step before these customers went to the Playboy club, gives ya an idea of the mentality...

Thank god the manager didn't think the same way, huh?

[BlaqueKatt]

three generations of my family have learned that waitressing is not for us-my Grandmother, mother, and myself-all three of us got groped on the first day, and the gropers ended up wearing whatever we were carrying at the time out of reaction . Oddly enough all three of us were carrying pitchers of icewater.

[blas]

Waitressing itself is a learning experience. Some are cut out for it and some aren't. While I consider myself a somewhat brave, no bullshit tolerance type person, there is only so much abuse I can take from people. Only so much degrading and belitting before the shit hits the fan and I leave. That's exactly what I did.

I worked the overnight shift ONCE. After waiting on too many tables of college guys after barclose who refused to tip me because I wouldn't sit on their laps or show them my "hoo hoos", I realized I was worth much more than $2.13 an hour.

[ArenaBoy]

As a son of a mother who has been in the restaurant/hospitality business for 25 years and counting, being a server is one of the hardest things you will ever do. Before my mom went to the owner's suite, she was the manager of the Whiskeyclone Grill. She got hit on constantly and still gets on despite my mom's age. Also, I feel bad for many of the servers who are female and work basketball games. Those who work the basketball games and are waitresses have to wear black pants and a basketball team jersey. Just about the entire waitressing staff happen to be attractive females in their early to late 20s. Now most of my customers happen to yuppies, men who have graduated college and happen to be in yuppie-ish jobs. They either go to Musa, Bank Row, or Whiskeyclone Grill. During the times I've walked by the grill I witness some jerk doing his best at failing to pick-up a rather attractive waitress, it's quite entertaining to me if you ask me.

[Shironu-Akaineko]

Waitressing is hard and I never did it myself, but walking around carrying all this food remembering the tables and what they each ordered, the last thing I'd need is getting my ass pinched, that's for sure.

[chainedbarista]

a pinch deserves a punch.

can we borrow mamie?

[Banrion]

When my mom was a cocktail waitress, some schmuk decided it was a good idea to grab her butt while she was trying to wade through a crowd carrying 4 pitchers of beer. He got a beer shower, 4 pitchers of beer added to his tab, and the boot!

[wagegoth]

My mother told me from a young age to develop a skill, as I would not want to be stuck waitressing. Now, I have tons of respect for waitrons. But she knew how bad it could be (she was very attractive) and she didn't want me to have to deal with it.

Which is why I don't hassle them, don't make demands or get rude, and I always tip well unless they totally screwed up the meal (I don't blame kitchen problems on the waitron, but if I have to keep asking for silverware that never arrives, drinks that don't show up, food that obviously sat under the lights for twenty minutes before being delivered, then it's the waitron).

[Imogene]

*grins evilly*
Oh how fun it'd be to be a waitress and get pinched, swivel around, drop the voice to a really low pitch, and say, "You need something, honey?"
Blah blah blah from customer.
"Oh, I'm only two operations away from being a woman full time."
*grins*

[Shironu-Akaineko]

a pinch deserves a punch.

can we borrow mamie?

Even better. *Gives you a ouija board*

Now she can haunt the poop outta them.